Illustration: South Shore 360 News

About South Shore 360 News

A local newsroom for Brockton and the South Shore of Massachusetts. Who runs it, who pays for it, where it works and how to reach it.

What we do

South Shore 360 News covers Brockton and the South Shore of Massachusetts: the city of Brockton and the towns of Plymouth, Weymouth, Braintree, Stoughton, Bridgewater, Marshfield, Easton, Hingham, Scituate, Pembroke, Rockland, Abington, Duxbury, Whitman, Hanover, East Bridgewater, Kingston, Holbrook, Norwell, Hanson, Hull, Halifax, West Bridgewater, Avon and Plympton. We start with the record: votes taken by city councils, town councils, select boards and school committees, school district notices, police and fire department releases, state and federal agency documents, and our own questions to the people involved. Every story lists its sources at the bottom.

We report arrests, charges, court cases and crashes once a police department, a court or an established newsroom has made them public. We never name juveniles or victims of sexual or domestic violence, and we never print a home address. When we use an organization's own words, the story says so.

Where our newsroom is

South Shore 360 is an edition of South Coast 360 News, an independent digital local news outlet. Our newsroom works remotely from the South Coast of Massachusetts and has no office on the South Shore. We report from the South Shore's public records, its public meetings and local sources: what its cities and towns, its school districts, the counties and state and federal agencies post, and what people tell us on the record. When we have not been somewhere ourselves, the story does not say or suggest that we were.

Our desks

Our stories are bylined to the desk whose beat they cover, such as "By the South Shore 360 Government Desk."

News Desk
Government Desk
Schools Desk
Public Safety Desk
Courts Desk
Sports Desk
Business Desk
Community Desk
Weather Desk

Our editors

South Shore 360 follows the same rules as South Coast 360 News. Its editors set the rules every story follows, decide what runs about crimes, allegations and private people, and own every correction. Reach them at news@ss360news.com.

Who owns South Shore 360, and who pays for it

South Shore 360 is an edition of South Coast 360 News, a creation of Cuttyhunk Creative Studio, a division of Cuttyhunk Branding & Business Services. It takes no money from political campaigns. It plans to carry clearly labeled local sponsors; a sponsor never sees a story before it is published and never decides what we cover.

Our owner also runs other businesses and holds other roles. When a story touches one of them, the story says so, or we do not run it. Those disclosures are part of our standards.

Our pictures

Photos are credited on the page to the photographer or agency that made them, with the license or permission they come under: town, county and state handouts, U.S. government photos, and photos their makers share under Creative Commons licenses. A photo always shows the story's own subject. We do not use images made by AI as news pictures.

The drawing of Brockton and the South Shore in late fall across the top of our pages is our own.